The purchase of Roper Starch closely follows UBM's acquisition of Allison--Fisher International (Detroit, MI), a supplier of syndicated market research for the automotive industry, for $45 million in cash.

It's not that I fear for my safety walking around campus by myself, because I don't, but it's just an environment where many of the people who grow up here have never been exposed to anything gay," says Roper, who came out last year and is now copresident of the gay and lesbian student group on campus.

Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, Trevor - Roper has a range of interests that runs from a book on Archbishop Laud (1940), the most controversial of early - 17th-century prelates, to The Hermit of Peking (1977), a detective biography of the fraudulent 20th-century sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse.

Though deep in grief over this horror, Roberta Roper was composed enough to assist in organizing the "Stephanie Roper Committee,' which in the past two years has persuaded legislators in her home state of Maryland to pass new laws stiffening parole requirements and providing a measure of equity for the victims of violent crimes.

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